Pimoroni Blinkt Dashboard

Control a Pimoroni Blinkt via a browser based dashboard

Note this has only been tested on a Pi running the full Raspian OS. I will try it on a Pi ZeroW with minimal Raspian install soon.

Control individual LEDs and the Blinkt strip as a whole via a node-red web dashboard eg.

Installation

This got me a couple of times so thought it woud be good to explain exactly what I did to get this working.
There is a blinkt node for node-red but it's not available via the Manage Pallet option in node-red or indeed via the normal npm install process.
The Blinkt node is part of a bundle of nodes made by Pimoroni and available on github. To avoid errors in node-red you have to install all the Phython libraries for all the Pimoroni devices in the bundle and then install the bundle.

Method 1

With Full Raspian OS

Install all the python libraries for the devices included in the Pimoroni node-red nodes bundle (Blinkt, ExplorerHat, Flotilla and UnicornHat)

This can be done individually or via the excellent installer that Pimoroni supplies (not sure if this will work on a minimal Raspbian install currently).